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When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true.
Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
Age: 88 †
Born: 1884
Born: May 8
Died: 1972
Died: December 26
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If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.
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One of the presidents we could have done without.... There are some things I admire about Tyler, but there were also plenty of things that weren't so admirable.... The reason I have a certain amount of grudging respect for John Tyler is that he knew his own mind and stuck to his decisions.
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There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
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I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
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...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.
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We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God
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About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
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Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
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A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.
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We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.
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